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Chestnut & Chocolate Pudding

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Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Stephen Ceideburg
  2. 500 g Chestnuts
  3. 1/4 c Cocoa
  4. 1/4 c Sugar
  5. 2 c Milk
  6. 2 ts Butter

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Blending hot liquid. Let it cool a little first, fill the blender no more than a third, and hold the lid down with a folded towel. Start on the lowest speed. A stick blender in the pan is safer.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Simmer 500 g peeled chestnuts in water for 20 minutes or until soft. Drain.
  2. In a saucepan over gentle heat combine quarter of a cup of cocoa, quarter of a cup of sugar, 2 cups milk and 2 teaspoons butter. Cook, stirring, for 10 minutes. Take the saucepan off the heat.
  3. Puree the chestnuts and add them to the cocoa mixture to- gether with a beaten egg. Stir well and pour into a buttered 1L mould. Place the mould in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven until pudding is firm, about 45 minutes.
  4. From an article by Meryl Constance in The Sydney Morning Herald, 5/4/93. Courtesy Mark Herron.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Blender
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
  • Colander
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Credit

Posted by: Stephen Ceideburg. Saved from www.armchairpatriot.com (http://www.armchairpatriot.com/COMBO%20RECIPES/Meal%20Master%20Recipes/12000.txt), file Recipes/www.armchairpatriot.com/COMBO RECIPES/Meal Master Recipes/12000.txt in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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